"Veronica Mars" Movie is Dead?

Back in February, "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas revealed that he was getting ready to take the first step in turning the show into a feature film. That step was pitching ideas to Joel Silver and Warner Bros.

Now, Thomas has revealed to PopWrap that things aren't looking very positive. "While the pitch [to producer Joel Silver] went well and I don't think the movie's dead, right now it's looking depressing," he said. "I think honestly if we would have had the pitch ready a year earlier, it would be a go project. The hope that we would get a quick greenlight didn't materialize. This is the least optimistic I've felt in a while."

Now that progress has slowed down, Thomas didn't mind sharing some of his ideas for the big screen movie. "If we were going to do a movie, I would want to put Wallace and Logan and Mac and Weevil in it," he said in regards to whether or not it would focus on Veronica's FBI years. "We would have picked up just prior to Veronica's graduation, it would have been the college years."

Fans have been pretty upset about how the show ended, and Thomas completely understands why. "It's one of the reasons I wanted to do the movie," he said. "There was so much debate as to how we would end season three since it could have been our last episode. But truthfully, I didn't want to make it any easier for them to cancel us. I didn't want to give them that nice happy 'ahhh' feeling."

But if Warner Bros ever decided to push things forward, Thomas is ready to go. "I would love nothing better than to make this movie, I would drop whatever else I was doing!"

= i still have hope but this makes me angry. i love the ideas and everything and i understand why they wouldn't be able to do the movie, but i want this movie so bad. we deserve a proper goodbye after the thud that season 3 ended with.